Rioting in Seattle prompts mayor to curb Times and riots
Rioters led by sailors and soldiers wrecked socialist and industrialist headquarters, and a Seattle Times censorship order was issued. Mayor Cotterill took police control, closed saloons, and prohibited street meetings while editors faced scrutiny for alleged incitement. Marines and civilians joined the effort to “clean up the town.”
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Seattle
Coitterill
Seattle Times
Humphries
Times
Ans
Cotterill
Powera
Seattle Daily Times
Police Department
United States
Pacific Reserve Fleet
Silors
Colorado
California
Washington
Pendleton Sees Hottest Day Yet This Summer
Yesterday recorded the hottest day of the season with the local official thermometer at E. F. Averill’s station showing one degree above the centre reading. By 2:16 this afternoon the temperature stood at 190 and could rise another point or two.
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Pendleton
E. F. Averill
Train Dynamited Killing Many in Mexico Attack
Rebel soldiers dynamited a federal troop train at Lam Pazay near Mexico City. Many believed killed as storms followed the blast. Details were scarce. reports cite tensions around General Diaz and political actions amid the bombardment of Mexico City. A State Department digest of consular reports is being prepared for the president.
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Mexico City
Lam- Pazay
Trong
Mexico
Diaz
Italy
Washington
State Department
Sheridan Fire Destroys Sheridan Business District
Fire last night practically destroyed the Sheridan business section, with damages estimated up to 400,000. About 30 buildings on the south bank of the Yamhill river were ruined, sparked by a cashlite explosion in a small restaurant. Firefighters from multiple towns fought the blaze as dynamite and ammunition threatened, leaving a 300 by three block area wiped out including banks, hardware and drug stores, hotels, and residences.
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Sheridan
Ore
Yamhill River
McMinnville
Calton
Wilamina
Threatened girl to get her money extortion case
Salt Lake City July 19 W L Cummins aged 23 was arrested on charges of attempting to extort $100 from Dorothy Bamberger a wealthy society girl Detectives held him after he telephoned Miss Bamberger after she had been threatened by an anonymous letter writer promising nitroglycerine would explode in her room Miss Bamberger had just arrived from New York when she received the letter.
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Salt Lake City
W. L. Cummins
Dorothy Bamberger
Cummings
Miss Bamberger
Bamberger
New York
Portland
Marie Equi
Sanity Commission
Second
Oregon Regiment
Poultry Raising Contests Start Among Fargo Pupils
Fargo North Dakota July 19 County school superintendents initiate a series of poultry raising contests for boys and girls. Pupils will raise poultry over summer vacation and the contests will be decided next fall.
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Fargo
America
Protests Against Executive Power in Tariff Debate
In Washington on July 19 Senator Cumming from Town denounced executive coercion in tariff framing. He warned the democratic caucus forms an invisible government and threatens the people’s sacred rights, urging Congress to resist concentration of legislative authority.
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Washington
Senate
Cumming
Congress
Von Klein Jury Fails to Reach Verdict in Diamonds Case
In Portland on July 19 the jury trying E C Von Klein for alleged theft of diamonds from Miss Ethel Newcomb of San Francisco reported an inability to agree after 30 hours of deliberation. The court set a retrial for September 2 with bail fixed at 4900 cash or 6500 surety.
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Portland
Ore
Belne
E & C. von Klein
Ethel Newcomp
San Franccisco
Rescue man from going over falls at Niagara
Trumnon Chapman a 22 year old from Hamilton Ontario was saved from the brink of the American Falls in Niagara Falls New York. Four men formed a chain and reached him after he toppled from Prospect Point. The rescuer at the end of the line was swept twice but clung to the brave effort and the group pulled both men to safety.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Trumnon Chapman
Hamilton
Ont
American Falls
Chapman
Prospect Point
Heat wave moves east from middle west to Atlantic resorts
July 19 report says the heat wave that tormented the middle west has moved eastward. Temperatures around the hundred mark were noted at many Atlantic coast summer resorts while the middle west saw readings slightly below normal today.
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Chicago
Middle West
Atlantic
Chorus Girls Stranded On Chicago Streets
Violet Drew and Evelyn Raymond, two of 16 chorus girls from Mile Modiste, stood on Michigan avenue with upturned hats begging for money to buy food after the show went broke. Brokers and business men dropped coins as Fritzie Scheff starred in the stranded company.
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Chicago
New York
Violet Drew
Mile Modiste
Evelyn Raymond
Michigan Boulevard
Miss Drew
Fritzie Scheff
Portland Riots Prompt Sheriff to Ban Open Meetings
A sequence of clashes in Portland following riots by alleged Industrial Workers and socialists led Sheriff Ward to order all open meetings in streets and parks halted. He will seek Mayor Albee's cooperation as authorities fight to stabilize the city.
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Portland
Ore
Plaga
Sheriff Ward
Albee
S. P. Opposes The R R Commission In Equity Suit
In San Francisco a federal court suit filed by Southern Pacific seeks to block the California railroad commission from claiming jurisdiction over equipment and trust certificates the company plans to issue in New York for rolling stock purchase. A parallel suit will be filed against the Arizona corporation commission to challenge its jurisdiction over 21 year notes totaling 30 million dollars for capital outlays.
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San Francisco
Federal District Court
Southern Pacific
California Railroad Commission
New York
Arizona Corporation Commission
Lane Pushes Oregon Stone For Pendleton Federal Building
Senator Harry Lane urges Pendleton federal building use of north western stone over eastern imports. He requests Oregon stone samples for tests by the Treasury Supervising Architect and notes Commercial Association support with Oregon delegation backing the move. Sinnott is the only representative to respond so far.
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Pendleton Federal
Harry Lane
Will M. Peterson
Senator Lane
Mr. Peterson
Oregon
Far East
Treasury Department
Portland
Pendleton
Washington
Commercial Association
Pendleton Federal Building
Sinnott
Turki sh at G ata Adrianople and Bulgarian massacres rise
July reports from Vienna and Athens describe Russian warning to Turkey against advancing on Adrianople and Turkish cavalry reaching Adrianople outskirts. Balkans indicate Greeks and Roumanians may push toward Sofia before peace terms. Alarming Austrian accounts from Seres recount mass killings, looting, and torture by Bulgarian troops. investigators confirm many brutal acts and mass graves. Belgrade notes Bulgarian forces accused of widespread massacres and Serb torture. Bucharest reports Roumanian cavalry capturing Bulgarian ninth division with 12 field guns.
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London
Adrianople
Constantinople
Balkans
Sofia
Bulgaria
Athens
Seres
Constantine
Greece
Salonika
Bucharest
No Open Lobby Hearing Today
Washington July 19. The lobby prothers held no public hearing today. Mulhall was excused for the day, said to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. In executive session the committee considered the books and accounts of the manufacturers and the national council for Industrial defense.
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Washington
Lobby Prothers
Mulhall
National Council For Industrial Defense
Oregon Manufacturer Leader Visits Pendleton
Thomas S. Mann president of the Oregon Manufacturers' Association arrived in Pendleton to meet local business men and study Umatilla county's farming and manufacturing potential. Mann, of the Pacific Stoneware firm, praised the region's beauty and opportunities, and plans for a county association to boost patronage. He will confer with local business leaders and a committee arranged by JV Tallman and Clarence Bishop.
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Thomass. Mann
Oregon Manufacturers’ Association
Pendleton
Umatilla County
Anch
Oregon
Milton
Mann
JV. Tallman
Commercial Club
Clarence Bishop
Wool
Bowman Loses Bid for Interchange of Phone Lines
Bowman, Butter Creek rancher, unsuccessfully sought a railroad commission order to interconnect his Hermiston Butter Creek line with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph. The commission ruled no public need shown and denied the interchange, but overruled that it lacked jurisdiction to order a physical connection.
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C. P. Bowman
Butter Creek
Pacific Telephone Company
State Railroad Commission
Salem
Commission
P. Bowman
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company
Bowman
Hermiston
The
Railroad Commission
Pacific Company
Eastern Oregon Independent Telephone Company
Immoral Women Arrested and Fined in Moral Crusade
May Carter and Jennie Mace, prostitutes named in warrants by Detective Tom Kay, were arrested by Sheriff Taylor and Chief Kearney, pled guilty, and fined 50 dollars each. Audrey Wilson and Teddy Brooks surrendered later, paid fines, and cited their sisters’ fates as deterrent. Some others had already left the city, with a few returning recently.
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Teddy Brooks
Sheriffs Office
Kay
Dack
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